Being termed as West Bengal's Gujarat Summit, which wrapped up after a successful show on Saturday last week, the Trinamool government's 'Bengal Leads' conclave has ...
05:13 PM, Jan 15, 2013
In the early 1990s, when TN Seshan as Chief Election Commissioner was the flavour of the season, a packed Rotary Club meeting in South Mumbai ...
12:14 AM, Oct 05, 2012
My mother said the most bizarre thing to me this afternoon over a very elaborate Bengali lunch. Claiming she had read it in the papers. ...
05:54 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Dear Mamata-Di, Let me at the very outset express a sneaking admiration for the manner in which you have proved your critics wrong yet ...
12:01 AM, Sep 21, 2012
No it's not the usual self-gratifying introspection about where my country is headed, not a futile fury over my prime minister's I- day speech which ...
06:29 PM, Aug 15, 2012
The needle on my irony meter is quivering at 'maximum' as I write this post. A month ago Mamata Banerjee was upset about a cartoon ...
01:03 PM, Jun 17, 2012
The closing of the Bengali mind I returned to north Bengal last week for a short holiday in the Darjeeling hills. I spent my ...
07:34 AM, Jun 13, 2012
The whole of last week I was angry, but not in a belligerent kind of way. Even now something in me is simmering ...
04:33 PM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unbridled joy at the Kolkata Knight Riders winning the fifth season of the Indian Premier League was ...
01:11 PM, May 31, 2012
No one manages a party quite like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She proved that again on Tuesday at the Eden Gardens. The city ...
03:15 PM, May 29, 2012
As part of covering one year of the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Government in West Bengal, we at CNN-IBN thought it a good idea to ...
04:59 PM, May 20, 2012
It is exactly a year since Mamata Banerjee created history in Bengal by dislodging the Left Front from power, after 34 long years of uninterrupted ...
10:59 AM, May 16, 2012
It's a terrible disease and it's spreading very fast. The symptoms are pronounced. It is known to make humans contort their faces, sometimes even expose ...
03:07 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Panditji is back this week with a new chant. Even though it has the word "Mamata" inside it, we've been extra-cautious not to include her ...
02:57 PM, Apr 17, 2012
The path of self-destruction, that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has embarked on since May, 2011, has been concrete-reinforced by her government's actions over ...
04:10 PM, Apr 13, 2012
She called her a 'tigress'. The 37-year-old Park street rape victim was grateful to one woman who believed in her and her account when no ...
06:06 PM, Apr 04, 2012
If you think a week is a long time in politics, just forget it. In India, it can take just a few hours for a ...
08:48 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Mukul Roy, the new railway minister, is a very quick learner. Within a day of taking over, he has decided that the Railways do not ...
05:14 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Decoding amma, didi, behnji and madam. Respect the Trinamool Congress, or else, warns the Ma Durga of West Bengal. Accept that Tamil Nadu operates ...
08:56 AM, Jan 11, 2012
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It was a little before 6 am. I got a call. There was a fire at AMRI. My mother woke up next to me asking ...
01:15 PM, Dec 15, 2011
